Vladimir Ivanow (orientalist)

Vladimir Alekseevich Ivanow
Vladimir Alekseevich Ivanow
Владимир Алексеевич Иванов
Born	November 3, 1886; Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	June 19, 1970 (aged 83); Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg Imperial University
	Scientific career
Institutions	Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Leningrad University
Doctoral advisor	Vasily Bartold
Notable students	Farhad Daftary

Vladimir Alekseevich Ivanow (Russian: Владимир Алексеевич Иванов; November 3, 1886 – June 19, 1970) was a Russian orientalist. He was a scholar of Islam, with a particular focus on Ismailism. He graduated in 1907 and joined the faculty of Oriental Languages of the University of St. Petersburg.^[1]

Vladimir Ivanow is a founding father of modern Isma'ili studies^[2]^[3] and one of the most authoritative scholars in the subject.^[4] He is a doctoral advisor of Farhad Daftary,^[5] the most authoritative scholar of the subject in the modern world.^[6]^[7]

Bibliography

Daftary, Farhad (2015). Fifty Years in the East: The Memoirs of Wladimir Ivanow. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1784531522.
"The Importance of Studying Ismailism". Ismaili Web.
Concise Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Curzon Collection. Kolkata: The Asiatic Society of Bengal. 1926.
Ismaili Literature: A Bibliographical Survey (2nd ed.). Teheran: Tehran University Press. 1963. (Second Amplified Edition of "A Guide to Ismaili Literature")
Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) Library, Wladimir Ivanow, revised by M. Hidayat Hosain. Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, (1939), 689 pages, 2 vols., 221 pages.
The Gabri Dialect Spoken by the Zoroastrians of Persia (1940)
Ismaili tradition concerning the rise of the Fatimids (1942). Volume 10 of the Islamic Research Association Series, Oxford Univ. Pr. in Komm., 450 pages .
Ibn-al-Qaddah: (The Alleged Founder of Ismailism) (1946). The Ismaili Foundation, 2nd. edition, (1957), 169 pages,
On the Recognition of the Imam: Or Fasl Dar Bayan-i Shinakht-i Imam (1947)
Nāṣir-i Khusraw and Ismailism (1948).
Studies in early Persian Ismailism. E.J. Brill, (1948) - 202 pages
Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī (translation)
Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1951), with M. Hidayat Hosain, M. Mahfuz-ul-Haq, M. Ishaque .
Studies in early Persian Ismailism, 2nd ed. (1955)
Problems in Nasir-i Khusraw's Biography (1956)

References

^ "Ivanow Vladimir Alekseevich" at Encyclopædia Iranica
^ Sárközy, Miklós (2019). "Meeting the Otherness". In Kovács, Attila; Šomodiová, Katarína (eds.). Contested Minorities of the Middle East and Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-527-52631-0.
^ Virani, Shafique N. (2007). The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation. ACLS Humanities E-Book. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-195-31173-0.
^ Daftary, Farhad (2007). The Ismāʿı̄lı̄s: Their History and Doctrines (Second ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2.
^ Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (2011). "Introduction: A Biographical Scetch". In Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (ed.). Fortresses of the Intellect Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary. London: I.B. Tauris and Institute of Ismaili Studies. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-786-73466-2.
^ Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (2011). "Introduction: A Biographical Scetch". In Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (ed.). Fortresses of the Intellect Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary. London: I.B. Tauris. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-786-73466-2.
^ Blank, Jonah (2023). Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras (Complete ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-226-83641-6.

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[1] "Ivanow Vladimir Alekseevich" at Encyclopædia Iranica

[2] Sárközy, Miklós (2019). "Meeting the Otherness". In Kovács, Attila; Šomodiová, Katarína (eds.). Contested Minorities of the Middle East and Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-527-52631-0.

[3] Virani, Shafique N. (2007). The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation. ACLS Humanities E-Book. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-195-31173-0.

[4] Daftary, Farhad (2007). The Ismāʿı̄lı̄s: Their History and Doctrines (Second ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-521-61636-2.

[5] Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (2011). "Introduction: A Biographical Scetch". In Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (ed.). Fortresses of the Intellect Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary. London: I.B. Tauris and Institute of Ismaili Studies. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-786-73466-2.

[6] Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (2011). "Introduction: A Biographical Scetch". In Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (ed.). Fortresses of the Intellect Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary. London: I.B. Tauris. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-786-73466-2.

[7] Blank, Jonah (2023). Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras (Complete ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-226-83641-6.

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